[Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 05/16/2015 12:03 AM, pmailkeey . wrote:
> I don't know whether this has been discussed or even mooted before...

Often.

> Tagging for the renderer is natural. Mappers, especially newbies will be
> disappointed their pet new feature they've just added to the db does not
> appear on the map.

Thing is, there is no "THE" map. There's tons of maps in various colour
schemes and designs, as well as tons of non-map uses of our data, and
this is one of the super strenghts of OSM - we record that there's a
motorway, and the map maker can define how they want the motorway drawn.

Your suggestion would kill that flexibility, and everyone would have to
adhere to that one colour scheme set up by the mapper or editor. It
would totally run against everything we hold dear.

What you are talking about is essentially "MS Paint with multi-user
capability". That's certainly an interesting project in itself but not
something that we should remotely consider in OSM.

Bye
Frederik

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